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YA Author Talk

in partnership with Words Worth Books

2024-03-19 19:00:00 2024-03-19 20:00:00 America/New_York YA Author Talk For teens ages 13 and up and adults. Main Library - James J. Brown Auditorium

Tuesday, March 19
7:00pm - 8:00pm

Add to Calendar 2024-03-19 19:00:00 2024-03-19 20:00:00 America/New_York YA Author Talk For teens ages 13 and up and adults. Main Library - James J. Brown Auditorium

Main Library

James J. Brown Auditorium

For teens ages 13 and up and adults.

Join us for a riveting interview with teen authors Kristen Ciccarelli and Mark Morton as they discuss their upcoming releases Heartless Hunter and The Headmasters.

For teens ages 13+ and adults.

Presented in partnership with Words Worth Books in celebration of 40 years.

WATCH LIVE FROM HOME! Stream this author event live through Zoom - no registration required for live streaming. To watch live, CLICK HERE.

About Kristen Ciccarelli:

Kristen Ciccarelli is a New York Times bestselling author whose books have been translated into over a dozen languages. Before writing stories for a living, she dropped out of college and worked as a baker, a potter, a bookseller, and an NGO worker. She lives with her husband and toddler in the Niagara region of Ontario.

About Mark Morton:

Mark Morton, author of The Headmasters and Cupboard Love: A Dictionary of Culinary Curiosities (nominated for a Julia Child Award), is also the author of three other nonfiction titles, The End: Closing Words for a Millennium (winner of the Alexander Isbister Award for nonfiction); The Lover’s Tongue: A Merry Romp Through the Language of Love and Sex (republished in the UK as Dirty

Words), and Cooking with Shakespeare. He’s also written more than 50 columns for Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture (University of California Press) and has written and broadcast more than a hundred columns about language and culture for CBC Radio. Mark has a PhD in sixteenth-century literature from the University of Toronto and has taught at several universities in France and Canada. He currently works at the University of Waterloo. He and his wife, Melanie Cameron (also an author), have four children, four dogs, one rabbit, and no time.

Programmer:  Ikhlas

Kristen Ciccarelli & Mark Morton

AGE GROUP: | Teens | Adults 19+ |

EVENT TYPE: | Book Clubs, Writing and Authors |

TAGS: | Author Event |

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